Are you cleaning your fish hook from the pond slime and find yourself in a painful surprise? Here is a remedy used by old fishermen to remove a fish hook from a finger, nose, ears, etc.
Steps
Step 1. Carefully push the hook through your finger, or the point where it is planted, until it comes out on the other side, unless the hook point has penetrated
It's painful, but it's better than tearing it in the same way it came in.
Step 2. Take a wire cutter and cut the hook point from the hook
Step 3. Extract what remains of the hook from the skin
This should be even more painful, but it's still better than pulling the hook.
Step 4. If the bleeding is severe, apply pressure to both sides of the wound until the bleeding slows and wrap the area with a bandage
Step 5. If the hook is rusty you have to do the tetanus shot
Step 6. When the hook is stuck deep in the skin, you can follow an alternative method to extract it
Step 7. Take a 30 cm long piece of fishing line and tie a knot around the curved part of the hook
Step 8. Hold the line with one hand and push the eye of the hook with the other hand
Step 9. Distract the victim and then pull the rope
Pushing down the eye of the hook prevents the hooked point from tearing a much larger part of the skin during extraction. Put on a band-aid and give the subject a drop of whiskey if necessary.
Step 10. Make sure you maintain adequate pressure on the cut to stop the bleeding, if it is severe
Advice
Aluminum hooks do not rust, unless they are of poor quality
Warnings
- It is not enough to simply pull the hook.
- If a fish hook gets stuck in your finger, see a doctor immediately!
- Tetanus can result from any cut wound, regardless of whether the object is rusty.
